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Agriculture Industry
A golden opportunity in crisis? Decoding agri-tech post pandemicedit
While the country grapples with Covid-19, there are two worries that concern us all – the first being the health of India’s large population and how one can minimise the extent of damage. And, second, what will be the future of our businesses after the pandemic eases?
Given that agriculture accounts for nearly 60% of aggregate employment in India, there’s a fair degree of concern over what will happen in the future, especially post this life-threatening disease.
After Karnataka CM helps a farmer who made viral plea, more farmers line up for helpedit
An emotional cry for help from an onion farmer in Karnataka who was unable to take her produce to the markets in Bengaluru caught the attention of Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa. Vasantha, an onion farmer from Katanayakanahalli in Hiriyur taluk of Chitradurga district highlighted her plight in a video on social media that soon went viral.
PM Modi discusses reforms in agriculture sectoredit
Amid coronavirus-induced lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday deliberated on ways to reform the agriculture sector with emphasis on agriculture marketing, access of farmers to institutional credit and freeing the sector of various restrictions with appropriate backing of laws.
Agriculture accounts for 15 per cent of India’s gross domestic product and is a source of livelihood for more than half of the country’s 1.
PM Narendra Modi holds meeting to discuss ways to boost agriculture sectoredit
PM Narendra Modi on Saturday (May 2, 2020) held a meeting to deliberate on the issues and reforms required in the Agriculture sector. Special emphasis was given on reforms in agriculture marketing, management of marketable surplus, access of farmers to institutional credit, and freeing agriculture sector of various restrictions with appropriate backing of the statute.
PM Modi tells ministries: Ensure farm credit is easy, review Essential Commodities Actedit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked the ministries of finance and agriculture and other stakeholders to ensure that farmers indeed have easy access to institutional credit at this juncture and other forms of governmental support, including marketing assistance.
After a review meeting on agriculture held by Modi with the relevant ministries, the government said in a statement: “The focus was on making strategic interventions in the existing marketing eco-system and bringing appropriate reforms in the context of rapid agricultural development. Concessional credit flow to strengthen agriculture infrastructure, special Kisan Credit Card (KCC) drive for PM-Kisan beneficiaries and facilitating inter and intra-state trade of agriculture produce to ensure fairest return to farmer were some of the important areas covered”.
Coronavirus | PM Modi discusses reforms for agriculture sectoredit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday discussed ways to reform the agriculture sector with an emphasis on marketing, farmers’ access to institutional credit and freeing the sector from restrictions with legal backing.
It’s about food, nutrition and livelihood securityedit
The current national lockdown to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the problems of food, nutrition and livelihood security confronting a large number of rural people, in particular, migrants to cities. While some measures have been announced, such as provision of additional rice or wheat, some pulses and oil free of cost, as well as ₹1,000 cash for the purchase of other essential commodities through the Public Distribution System (PDS), we need to understand the different dimensions of food security in a holistic manner in order to address this problem in its totality.
Manipur black rice gets Geographical Indication tagedit
Manipur black rice, popularly known as ‘Chakhao’ by the locals, has bagged the Geographical Indication (GI) tag, according to official sources.
The Geographical Indications Registry website also confirmed the report of registering Chakhao in the name of ‘Manipur black rice’ on their official website.
The application for Chakhao was filed by the Consortium of Producers of Chakhao (Black Rice), Manipur and was facilitated by the Department of Agriculture, Government of Manipur and the North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Limited.
It took more than a year for the registration process including documentation by the team members of the state agriculture department, according to officials. The GI status is an indication that identifies goods as produced from a particular area ...